Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President then moved on to terrorism. The recent incidents, he claimed, were not proof of a latent French anti-Semitism. Instead, radical elements sabotaging France's role in mediating the Lebanese confrontation, were to blame. After announcing a series of security provisions, including police reinforcements and the creation of a secretary of state for security. Mitterrand assumed a grave, but confident expression. "There will come a day when terrorism will fall under our blows. With courage and perseverence, we shall win this fight...
...fighting over a planned $35 million hog-slaughtering facility that would provide 600 jobs and a $10 million annual payroll. Three years ago, Illinois could not find a community that would accept a new medium-security facility to house 750 inmates, even though it would have meant 500 recession-proof jobs and a payroll of about $9 million annually. This year more than a dozen Illinois cities and towns are going for it. Among the suitors: Dixon, where Ronald Reagan grew up and worked summers as a lifeguard...
...until he began to talk, they had no proof he had committed any of the murders. Watts' luck ran out last May 23, when he was arrested while trying to drown Lori Lister, 20, in her apartment bathtub. In the end Watts' culpability came as no great surprise to Houston police. When Watts migrated south in March 1981, Michigan authorities warned Texas police that he was suspected of being Michigan's "Sunday Morning Slasher." Houston police placed Watts under surveillance, but he was obviously not watched closely enough...
...effect, the ranchers want protection against themselves. One of the reasons that they are so dependent on public grazing lands is that private ranges have been grossly overgrazed. Environmentalists cite this as proof of their contention that commercial interests are often concerned only with profits. The timber industry has been another offender: it wants to buy national forests, in part because private lands have been overcut. Indeed, environmentalists note, the whole purpose of creating the national forest system was to prevent loggers from stripping the woods bare. "Two-thirds of the timber in this country comes from private land...
West German commentators last week were comparing the current economic troubles with the country's 1931 banking crisis, when the German stock market was forced to shut down. Some officials saw the failure of AEG-Telefunken as proof that West German companies, which had once been among the leaders in high technology, were now falling behind American and Japanese firms. Said Andreas von Bülow, Minister of Research and Technology: "At the moment we are clearly behind our rivals, and if the applications in industry of microelectronics are not considerably speeded up, our technological standing will soon...